NaNoWriMo No Mo

It's over! Amazing. I completed the NaNoWriMo Challenge. For those of you who don't know what it is, I will tell you! Starting November 1st, writers across the nation join together to write a novel within 30 days. There are no rewards, prizes, or accolades given if you complete the task. Your finished novel is not submitted for review or reading. It's simply a way to motivate blocked writers across the country to write! I have written before about my inability to focus on writing for the last few years. Since my heart is no longer stripped, stamped and hung out in the wind, I haven't had any good material. Or, I haven't had any good motivation to write, since my primary drive before was to cleanse myself of painful memories and ideas.

NaNoWriMo was awesome. I spent the whole month writing! Hating, half the time, what I was doing, and finding that my once carefully constructed writing voice was hidden. I used to be so good at writing! I did it all the time. I was practiced. Even more so, I found it hard to create plot points, since I was used to writing short stories and not novel plots.

I have a lot of editing to do. The one luxury not afforded to NaNoWriMoers is that of editing. You have to just produce. I had to do one little bit of editing along the way, but for the most part it is just poetic vomit. There is a lot of cleaning up to do. With so much material (50,000 words!) I know I have the makings of a good story. I just have to craft it now.

I promise to post good parts when I have them.

I really love writing.